Harriet+Taylor

Google SketchUp project: My powerpoint:

1. An example of a Private Music Lesson Class Room 2. A Music teaching class room 3. A view of the Building

Google Earth  

How difficult/easy it was – whether you ran into difficulties and problem solved, needed assistance? I thought the task was difficult but I learned alot. We ran into difficulties such as our voicethreads not loading and crashing. It was difficult learning how to use voicethread so we needed help from other classs mates and Mrs Yeo. Another thing we found difficult was that some of the places we chose were very hard to find videos for so we ended up making powerpoints, which still worked.

What made you chose the places and were there any issues regarding the choices? We chose the places we did because Jasmine understood alot about the chinese/ foreign places and not many people were doing them. Also because we both knew alot about the New Zealand places.

How well did you work with your partner? I think that me and Jasmine worked well togehther. As she understood more about the places in China, we decided that she would be responsible for the foreign information and recordings and I would do the New Zealand ones. What also went well is that often one of our laptops/ Voicethread stopped working so we could use the other persons laptops and do the work until the problem was solved.

Did you pull your weight in the project or was it one sided? As stated above, I think that we shared equal loads with each of us doing about half. Although, as I didn't really understand how to put the voicethreads onto Google Earth, Jasmine did most of that but at the same time she was also teaching me how to do it.

What were the good/bad things about this project?

The good things were: It was fun working with a partner meaning that there wasn't as much pressure. It was a completely new thing to learn about and it was a challenge. We found that recording onto videos and researching about a range of different places was alot more fun then writing a paragraph on each place.

The bad things were: It was quite difficult at times. Working with a partner meant that it was hard to find time out of class to complete all of it.

Our Google Earth Conclusion: When the Google project was set, we were thinking that it could be a little task that wouldn’t require too much time. However when we started, we found that we were quite wrong. Although it required a lot of time and effort, it was a fun way to learn new things for instance learning about voice thread and doing things like downloading and embedding videos. During the process we had a few technical difficulties such as our laptops crashing on us and voice thread not loading properly. It was a challenge learning how to use voice thread and record without making mistakes but we are pleased to have learned how to record onto videos and have a better understanding of how to use Google Earth.  Overall we thought it was a great learning experience and was fun to work in pairs because they can help you to do things you don’t understand.

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